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I sure hope I don’t have to explain the whole songs / favorites / feelings association thing again. If you don’t know the story by now, you haven’t read my blogs. Shame on you!

I figure if I’m sad, I would listen to music to cheer me up, right? So I’m choosing “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles. It’s about getting over a long winter as the sun begins to shine, and “It’s all right.” The song is cheerful and just the thing to turn that frown upside down. Did I really just type that?

Now if you want to stay sad for a while, the blues are always good. Isn’t that what the blues are for – allowing you to enjoy sadness and melancholy? This is sometimes nice. Being human, we should allow ourselves the chance to enjoy the full range of emotions.

I’m not an expert in the blues, but I can give a couple of examples of songs that do this for me. “Sad Songs” by Elton John and “Song Sung Blue” by Neil Diamond are both about this “blues effect.” Ah, delicious melancholy.

Elton John also wrote “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” but I don’t like the song as much as “Sad Songs.”

Well, that’s the 30 Days of Music post for today. I hope I didn’t bring anyone down. If so, just listen to a few sad songs.

I’ve certainly had better luck with today’s feeling of happy than I did with yesterday’s angry. Again, I wouldn’t say that I associate any one song with being happy, nor do I say “I’m happy, I’ll listen to this song.” But my Googling was much more successful today. I recognize most of the songs that come up for the search phrase “happy songs.”

Now, which song shall I pick? Because I thought of it before I even went to Google to do the search, I’m choosing “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves as my happy song. It’s energy and theme are enough to make anyone happy.

That was easier than I thought it would be. I’m happy.

Today, is a FAIL on the 30 Days of Music Challenge. I don’t get angry and say, “Oh, let me listen to this song.” The next two days will be the same. I can try to find songs that remind me of the feelings, but that’s the best I can do.

I tried Googling “angry songs“. I didn’t know any of them. I don’t associate music with anger. That’s not what music is about for me. Music is uplifting, cheerful. It keeps me happy and sane in this stupid, crazy world.

Trying to find an angry song is very negative for me. It’s like watching the news. It just promotes a bad feeling. You know I’m all into “You are what you think,” and thinking about anger is just going to get you angry.

While writing this blog entry, I’m still looking at Google, trying to find a song. Seriously, I don’t know any of them! What does this say about me? What does this say about the music and the people who listen to it?

It does seem that the people who do listen to music when they are angry listen to hard rock, metal, hip hop and the like. I don’t listen to any of that, so I’m not in the loop here.

Okay, so I switched and Googled “angry show tunes.” I know there are a few, but I just cannot think of any off the top of my head, except “Little Girls” from Annie, but that doesn’t do me any good. I’m never around little girls, so that’s not why I angry.

This is turning into an Epic Fail.

And what the heck is “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” that keeps showing up in the search results?

Oh, wait! There’s “Heaven On Their Minds” in Jesus Christ Superstar. That would work for an atheist like me. Blind faith is something that makes me angry.

I found a forum called “Unintentionally Racist Showtunes,” and they mention songs like “Ugg a Wug” from Peter Pan and “Old Man River” from Showboat. Racism makes me angry, but I wouldn’t sing these songs.

Inspiration hits me!

Okay, this isn’t really on topic as it isn’t a song I listen to when I’m angry, but I do get angry about war. I’m picking Edwin Starr’s song, War. Of all the asinine, stupid, ridiculous things mankind has ever come up with, war is at the top of the list.

Wait, religion can cause war! Isn’t that at the top of the list? Or is it just human stupidity? I guess I’m getting more angry by the minute. I guess I’ll stop now and listen to some happy songs.

Here we go with the favorites again. How am I supposed to pick one out of so many good albums? Of course, like bands, I usually only like one or two songs from an album, and truly, I haven’t listened to an entire album or CD in a very long time.

So, today’s song is a difficult one to choose because I don’t have a favorite album at the moment. However, I do believe that when I began burning CD’s from my music collection on my computer, I always had one album that stayed with my mixed CD’s. That would be “10 Years Together, the Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary.” One reason was because I was practicing my guitar pretty regularly at the time, and I really liked their sound.

If I had to pick a song from that album, I’d go with “Puff, the Magic Dragon.” Puff is a song from my early years, but it’s still a favorite. I know that a song from my childhood is coming up later in the challenge, but I’ll pick a different one when the time comes.

Now, just because I’ve picked one song from the album, don’t think that that’s my favorite. There are just so many good songs. Who came up with all this favorite stuff anyway?

Today’s song for the 30 Days of Music Challenge almost had me stumped. I didn’t know which song I would choose until I sat down to write today’s blog. Then, I was saved by the muses.

In yesterday’s post, I stated that, nowadays, I only listen to the radio when I’m driving. So instead of trying to come up with a random song to hear on the radio, I thought, “What song do I want to hear on the radio while driving?”

I usually don’t say to myself, “I wish they would play this song.” That is unless it is raining, and I have the windshield wipers on. Then the words of today’s song come into my mind – “those windshield wipers slappin’ out a tempo…” Then, I think, “I wish they would play that song.”

So, the song for today is “Driving My Life Away” by Eddie Rabbit.

Today’s title also reminds me of the song “On the Radio” by Donna Summer.